Pierrot and Harlequin

Prints and Drawings

1918

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Pierrot and Harlequin
Place: Spain (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1918
Medium: Graphite, with touches of erasing, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, upper left, in graphite: "Picasso (underlined) / 1918"
Dimensions: 26.5 × 19.5 cm (10 7/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Given in memory of Charles Barnett Goodspeed by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed
Reference Number: 1947.875
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Picasso: Poemas y Declaraciones (Mexico, 1944), n. p. (ill.).
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art (New York, 1946), p. 101 (ill.).
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso III (Paris, 1949), p. 46, no. 135 (ill.).
Frank Elgar and Robert Maillard, Picasso (Paris, 1955), p. 105 (ill.).
Douglas Cooper, Picasso, théâtre (Paris, 1967), pp. 31, 48, and 57, fig. 132.
Lael Wertenbaker, The World of Picasso (New York, 1967), p. 115 (ill.).
André Fermigier, Picasso (Le Livre de Poche) (Paris, 1969), pp. 138 and 140, fig. 84.
William Rubin, Pablo Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1972), pp. 103–104, 216, fig. 71.
William Rubin, Picasso Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York, 1980), p. 210 (ill.).
Gary Tinterow, Master Drawings by Picasso, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 254, no. 19.
Townsend Wolfe, Picasso: The Classical Years 1917–1925, exh. cat. (Little Rock, Ark., 1987), cat. 2 (ill.).
Werner Spies, Kontinent Picasso (Munich, 1988), p. 37, fig. 22.
The Picasso Project, Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885–1973, From Cubism to Neoclassicism, 1917–1919 (San Francisco, 1995), p. 119, no. 18–072 (ill.).
Museu Picasso, Picasso y el teatro, exh. cat. (Barcelona, 1996), p. 113, cat. 73 (ill.).
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Dels Ballets al Drama (1917–1926) (Barcelona, 1999), pp. 88, 89, and 493, no. 218 (ill.).
La epoca de Picasso: Donaciones a los Museos Americanos (Santander, 2004), pp. 96 and 265, fig. 14.
Stephanie d’Alessandro, “Picasso and Chicago”, (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), p. 57, cat. 60 (ill.)

Chicago, The Arts Club, “Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago,” November 4–25, 1938, cat. 105, as Polichinelle et Arlequin.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Picasso: Forty Years of His Art,” November 15, 1939–January 7, 1940, p. 93, cat. 133; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 1–March 3, 1940, the St. Louis Art Museum, March 16–April 14, 1940, and Boston, Mass., Museum of Fine Arts, April 26–May 25, 1940.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Modern Drawings,” 1944, p. 95.
Mexico, Sociedad de Arte Moderno, “Picasso,” June 1944, p. 41.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition,” May 22–September 8, 1957, p. 50; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, October 29–December 8, 1957.
Fort Worth, Tex., Fort Worth Art Center, “Picasso,” February 8–March 26, 1967, cat. 174, p. 40 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso in Chicago,” February 3–March 31, 1968, pp. 72 and 116, cat. 79 (ill.).
New York, Pace Gallery, “Je suis le cahier: The Sketchbooks of Pablo Picasso,” 1986, hors cat.; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, July 10–August 23, l987.
Little Rock, Ark., Arkansas Arts Center, “Picasso: The Classical Years 1917–1925,” December 4, 1987–January 31, 1988, cat. 2.
Barcelona, Museu Picasso, “Picasso i el circ,” November 15, 2006–February 18, 2007, pp. 185 (ill.) and 336, cat. 128; traveled to Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, March 9–June 10, 2007.
Rome, Italy, Scuderie del Quirinale, “Pablo Picasso Between Cubism and Classicism: 1915-1925”, September 21, 2017 - January 21, 2018, p. 204, cat. 134 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Picasso: Drawing from Life”, November 11, 2023 - April 8, 2024.

Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, by 1932 [Zervos, 1932]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.

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